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To our 32 KickStarter "Backers!"

You wonderful, visionary few!

I am writing to express my profound gratitude for your reaching out and taking a chance with us.  You are among the few who loved the idea of a Waterproof Book of Mormon.  You ordered copies (and made generous pledges) in connection with our KICKSTARTER campaign earlier this year.  My name is Boyd Tuttle, and I am the publisher of the Waterproof Book of Mormon and other books found at www.Digitalegend.com. Mark Burris has been my partner and the real visionary for this project from the very beginning. Together, we are reaching out to you as we press forward in this groundbreaking project.

Does the attached image look familiar to you? It was captured the day our Kickstarter expired. We were 20% funded!

“32 backers!” That is YOU!  I’m looking at your names in front of me. Each one of you on this email list is ONE of those intrepid pioneers. Yes, you are a pioneer!  Out of the thousands who doubtless visited the site, you were the few whose sight could transcend the mundane, you could see the potential and the need for such a thing. As contrasted with the many, who upon hearing about the project usually laughed outload and wondered, “What? Why? I have my phone!”

But they could not have anticipated what has happened since June 4^th nor what is coming! So, I want you 32 to be the first to know the “rest of the story…”

In late July, this year, the Church IRI (Intellectual Reserve Inc.) surprised us by granting full permission to use the © 2013 copyrighted edition of the Book of Mormon! (Which is the current edition)! That is huge. You will see that now the look of the cover (and interior) has changed drastically.

Do you see the other attached image? It should look very familiar. It’s the Official LDS Church Edition of the Book of Mormon sold throughout the world. The only difference is the bottom reads “Waterproof.” To the average reader it will appear identical in nearly every respect, except a bit lighter in weight.

Something else also happened in July. Our book supplier in Guangzhou, China was on their 5^th attempt to assemble a truly waterproof book that could meet our stringent success criteria, which was:

The book must be fully submerged in a bath of water for 90 minutes and then be retrieved and dried out...

• There could be no smearing or fading of the printed ink text
• There could be no smearing or fading of the permanent ink used to write notes on the pages
• There could be no failure of the glue binding material used in the spine, (which has proven to be the biggest challenge)
• After drying, the book had to recover to its former shape, size, suppleness, and pliability as if it had never seen water

Those tests were conducted here in Salt Lake City, and I personally performed the tests and observed the results. I can confirm that this latest version met all the requirements with flying colors!

It seemed just as we were at the end of our energy and resources, on that final attempt, we found success!  Since that time, we have performed even more aggressive tests for toughness and durability. In fact, we have, floating in a mason jar, for more than eight (8) months, one page of the printed book that I take out to examine from time to time, each time has shown it be unaffected at all!

What does all this mean? It means we are about to place our production order for the first-ever Waterproof Book of Mormon!  Keep in mind these are not the type of book that you can do a POD (Print on Demand) and get a small batch of to test out. Due to the extremely expensive materials involved, we must print thousands of copies to get the unit price down to acceptable levels that can be even close to manageable.

We are going to pull the trigger on this print run this week (the week of Sept 30^th). We may max out all my credit cards if I have to but we are determined to make a go of this. My question to you is, are you still with us? Do you want to pledge again? Only this time, we won’t lose 5% to KickStarter!

Here is our call to action... Can you help us again?  Here is how, by clicking ADD TO CART you will find you are in the GIFT CARD section and then choose the DENOMINATION Amount that suits you. You can also let me know via text message or message in the comment section the QTY of books you want delivered to your home.  to pledge or donate toward the cost of printing. That becomes your "pledge" or donation. Your donation is 100% dedicated toward getting the WaterProof BoM printed and into distribution!

Thank you, thank you!

Boyd Tuttle & Mark Burris

Publishers